South Sudan: U.N. Seeks $1.8 Billion in Aid as Fighting Flares Again

By

Nicholas Bariyo

Dec 15, 2014 3:58 pm ET

The United Nations is seeking $1.8 billion to provide aid to up to 4.1 million people in South Sudan next year, U.N. officials said, as a resurgence in fighting threatens to exacerbate the country’s already precarious humanitarian situation.